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Alewife (multiprocessor)
Computer system developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alewife was a cache coherent multiprocessor developed in the early 1990s by a group led by Anant Agarwal at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1][2] It was based on a network of up to 512 processing nodes, each of which used the Sparcle computer architecture,[3] which was formed by modifying a Sun Microsystems SPARC CPU to include the APRIL techniques for fast context switches.[4]
The Alewife project was one of two predecessors cited by the creators of the popular Beowulf cluster multiprocessor.[5]
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